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Someone tweeted this yesterday and some of the replies were really disheartening. Several people were calling it fake, with varying explanations of either "The
by Tobold 11y ago
Someone tweeted this yesterday and some of the replies were really disheartening.
Several people were calling it fake, with varying explanations of either "The earth is flat" or "Everybody knows the whole space program is fake".
I knew people out there actually believe this, but damn...
- 13hours 11y agoI find Twitter to be second only to YouTube in comment trolls.
- bhaak 11y agoI have to say that the images look like badly photoshopped fakes to me as well. If they weren't on a NASA page, I wouldn't believe them to be real. Sometimes, reality is quite different from what we expect it to be.
- lcswi 11y agoDon't consider all comments to be honest, there are tons of bored trolls.
- bdavisx 11y agoBut also don't underestimate the stupidity, ignorance and/or anti-intellectualism of the general American (as well as other countries) population. Remember that 1/3 of Americans do not believe in evolution...
- kjs3 11y agoWhy do you automatically think all or even most Twitter comments are from Americans?
- sgustard 11y agoNot all, just the dumb ones! Also, two-thirds of native English speakers are in the US.
- lcswi 11y agoNativity does not matter. Did you think I was a native speaker? I am not.
- bdavisx 11y agoThat was why I put "(as well as other countries)" on the comment; but I probably wasn't as clear as I could have been. I specifically mentioned America because that's what I had the statistics around belief in evolution for. Also, I feel more qualified to comment on the "stupidity, ignorance and/or anti-intellectualism" of American's because I see/hear it every day.
- mrschwabe 11y agoI don't find these kind of replies disheartening. I think scepticism of NASA is a good thing. Because some of that scepticism might translate into new research, new developments, new experiments, and maybe even new entrepreneurial efforts in space.
- scott_s 11y agoTobold is not describing rational skepticism of NASA's ability to fulfill its mission. Tobold is describing conspiracy theories and people who have fundamental misunderstandings of science.
- krapp 11y agoMaybe if we discredit the last thousand-odd of years of scientific progress and history and start over from scratch, someone will discover magic and we can all fly to the moon on the back of aether turtles.